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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. GBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Microsofts flagship relational DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score87.68
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score1.17
Rank#169  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score805.69
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.gbase.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-server
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperDatabricksGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Microsoft
Initial release201320041989
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cSQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C#C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DatabricksGBaseMicrosoft SQL Server
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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